Analysis – Page 59 – The Talking Fern

The major labels now turn over more than $1bn a month. But who’s ruling 2018?

Streaming revenues at the major labels have almost doubled over the past two years
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The music industry must beware it doesn’t get eaten up by phone giants’ hunger for growth

Telco giants are back in love with music – but is that definitely such as good thing?
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My music startup failed multiple times before we got it right. Here’s what I learned.

Fanbytes co-founder Timothy Armoo on pivoting three times – and then succeeding
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What happens when artists and record labels build and buy their own media companies?

Cherie Hu breaks down the increasing similarities between ‘music companies’ and ‘media companies’
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Spotify is on a collision course with the major record companies. Here’s why.

Spotify has a number of tricky issues to face down during its 2019 negotiations with the biggest labels
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Apple Music beats Spotify to biggest day-one streaming number for Travis Scott’s Astroworld

Following J.Cole and Drake albums, Apple’s done it again…
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Apple Music beats Spotify to biggest day-one streaming number for Travis Scott’s Astroworld

Why Spotify faces a difficult hardware conundrum (and so does Sonos)

Can both music ‘pureplay’ companies keep the likes of Amazon and Apple at bay?
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